Non-refillable bottle.



Patented Feb. 20.1900. J. v. 0. HAVEN.

NUN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Tu ma 12, 1899.)

(No Model.)

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN V. D. HAVEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-TIIIRDS TO RODERICK R. ANDRUS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, AND JAMES M. RUDE, OF

COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 643,842, dated February 20, 1900. Application filed June 12, 1899. fierial No. 720,185. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: t. Be it known that I, JOHN V. D. HAVEN, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and y State of Illinois, have invented certain new q' and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable & Bottles, of which the following is a specification. The object of my invention is to produce a non-refillable vessel.

The features of my invention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompany- L ing drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a cross-section of my improvement. Figs. 2 and 8 are plan views of the cork-head disks. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modification of the cork.

Any style of vessel may be employed, but for convenience of illustration I have shown the ordinary bottle form. v

The neck of the bottle is preferably cast in two pieces A B, the lower piece being cast on the bottle proper.

C represents an upper diaphragm cast in the upper portion of the neckpiece A. In this diaphragm are the orifices a, preferably concentrically arranged and inwardly inclined. The under face of this diaphragm between the center I? and the periphery is channeled out, forming an annular concave groove J around the center. A second diaphragm is formed in the lower portion of the neck near the shoulder, and this second diaphragm D is providedwith a valve-orifice 0. Before the pieces A B are fused together the bottle portion is filled with the liquid, a ball D or other valve-seating device is seated in the orifice c, a cork E is placed between the two diaphragms, and an upper ball F is placed between the cork and the upper diaphragm. The pieces A B are then fused together at l. The cork is hollowed out on the bottom to form an upper seat for ball D. The cork is of just sufficient length to allow of about a quarter of an inch of longitudinal movement between the two diaphragms. The ball D is of greater diameter than the longitudinal movement of the cork, so that it rests in either the upper or lower seat, according to 50 the position of the bottle, but is never out? of contact with one of them, while it is nort rer c m mally in contact with both when the bottle is upright.

A single cork, such as shown in Fig. 4, may be employed, it being loose enough to move freely in the neck of the bottle and having passages d for the outward flow of the liquid. Preferably, however, a cork something of the proportion and form shown in Fig. l is employed. When this form is used, I employ an upper head or disk G and a lower head or disk H, attached, respectively, to the top and bottom of the cork and provided with openings f for the passage of the liquid. A convenient method of attaching these disks when they are made of sheet metal is to provide them with lugs e, which can be bent over and embedded in the body of the cork. The lower disk 11 has of course an orifice h, concentric with the hollow g in the lower face of the cork, the two forming an upper seat for the ball D. The use of these disks enables me to use asmaller cork, allows a freer movement of the cork, and the peripheries of the disks engaging the inner periphery of the bottle-neck guide the cork in a truelongitudinal movement. The disks may be of any suitable material, and the materialfor the balls is to be selected with a view to getting sufficient weight to properly perform their weighting, centering, and wedging functions.

In Fig. 1 the ordinary cork K is shown in dotted lines for sealing the mouth of the bottle.

Mode of operation: -After the bottle is filled the parts are placed together in the relation already described and the pieces A B fused together. When the liquid is to be poured out, the inversion of the bottle drops the cork and ball D away from the orifice c and allows the liquid to pass through the same through openings f, between the cork and bottle-neck, and thence through orifices a.

The most of the so-called non-refillable bottles can be readily refilled by immersing the bottle-mouth under the liquid while it is voided of air, the suction forcing the liquid back through the very passage of exit. With my improvement this would be impossible,

as the liquid will be forced up by externalair-pressure until it reaches the cork; but it would at that point float the cork upward, forcing the ball D firmly into and closing the orifice 0, thus effectually sealing the bottle against refilling by this method. So if the bottle be laid upon its side the ball F by reason of its weight wedges between the head of the cork and the tapered portion I of the annular groove Jin the under face of the upper diaphragm, forcing the cork inward and the ball D inward to its seat in orifice c, and the entrance of the liquid into contact With the cork would float the cork and facilitate this operation. Of course when the bottle is upright the weight of ball D will of itself seal orifice c. The inclination inwardly of orifices a renders it impossible to steer a wire through the mouth of the bottle and through one of these orifices for engaging the cork or the upper ball.

The distance between the center I) of the upper diaphragm and the head of the cork is less than the diameter of ball F, so that the ball cannot in any position traverse the neck of the bottle, but will roll around the center in the annular groove J.

While it is preferable to form the diaphragms integral with the pieces A B, it is not essential, for they could be-made separately and secured therein in a great many different ways. Also a tube containing my improvement could be placed in the neck of an ordinary bottle and fused therein, thus enabling me to use bottles of ordinary construction.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. In a non-refillable vessel the combination of two diaphragms, a valve-orifice in the lower one, an annular groove formed in the under face of the upper one, one or more inclined orifices formed in said last-named diaphragm, a cork located between said diaphragms and longitudinally movable within said vessel, a valve-seating device located between the cork and lower diaphragm, a ball located between the upper end of the cork and the upper diaphragm adapted to engage the tapered walls of said annulargroove, substantially as specified.

2. In a non-refillable vessel the combination of a neck provided with two diaphragms, a valve-orifice in the lower one, one or more inclined orifices in the upper diaphragm, the lower face of the upper diaphragm having an annular groove therein, a cork located between said diaphragms, a ball located between the upper end of the cork and said annular groove, a Valve-seating device located between the orifice in the lower diaphragm and the lower end of the cork, the lower end of the cork being hollowed out to form a seat for said valve-seating device, the cork being adapted to have a longitudinal movement in said neck of lesser length than the diameter of the valve-seating device, substantially as specified.

3. In a non-refillable vessel the combination of a neck provided with two diaphragms, a valve-orifice in the lower diaphragm, an inclined orifice in the upper diaphragm, an annular groove formedin the under face of the upper diaphragm, a cork loosely fitted in said neck between said diaphragms, the lower end of the cork being hollowed out, disks attached to the ends of said cork engaging the neck of the vessel, orifices located in said disks adapted to pass the liquid, a ball located between the upper disk and the annular groove, a valve-seating device located between the lower disk and the lower diaphragm adapted to seat in the orifice thereof and in the 1101- low end of the cork, the longitudinal travel of the cork being less than the diameter of the valve-seating device, substantially as specified.

4. In a non-refillable vessel the combination of a tube provided with two diaphragms, a valve-orifice in the lower one, one or more inwardly-inclined concentric orifices in the upper one, the under face of said upper diaphragm having an annular groove, a cork located between said diaphragms and longitudinally movable in said tube, a seat formed in the lower end of the cork, a valveseating device located between the orifice in said lower diaphragm and the seat in the end of said cork, having a diameter greater than the length of cork movement, and a ball located between the upper end of said cork and said annulargroove, the said ball being of greater diameter than the distance between the converged portion of said groove and the upper end of the cork, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand. I

JOHN V. D. HAVEN.

Vitnesses:

W. R. Wool), OLIVER B. KAISER.

S; n? v to H C 03 -l- G5 a.

(I) L- V 4- +4 03 -I It is hereby certified that the name of the first-mentioned assignee in Letters Patent No. 643,842, granted February 20, 1900, upon the application of John V. D. Haven, of Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Non-Refillable Bottles, was erroneously written and printed Roderick R. Andrus,, that said name should have been Written and printed Roderick K. Andrus and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Office.

' Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 6th day of March; A. D., 1900.

[SEAL] THOS. RYAN,

First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Gountersigned O. H. DUELL,

Commissioner of Patents. 

